Second report

Introduction

Good morning, today we are going to talk about a hot topic at present, it is the abuse and exploitation of animals for this purpose are with us, two specialists in the field, we welcome you to Mrs. Jennifer and Mr. Eduardo. I will give you a few questions and each one has 2 minutes to give his or her opinion.

1 - In the city of Medellin, there are about 1000 establishments where animals are sold and around 10000 people earn their income in this market. What do you think about             this?

- Mrs. Jennifer
-Mr.     Eduardo

 

2 - Throughout history, animal experimentation has been essential for the development of science, especially in the pharmaceutical industry and medicine. We should stop the progress of science, to prevent animal suffering?

- Mrs. Jennifer
- Mr.    Eduardo
 

3-Man, as a superior animal endowed with reason, is layered to use everything around you to progress and meet their needs. What do say you about this?

- Mrs. Jennifer
- Mr.    Eduardo

Now we will show about the Animal Front Liberation (ALF) …

4 – As shown in the video, in many parts of the world has seen a group calling itself the "animal liberation front, they do looting of animals in different places. If there are laws for the protection of animals, why these groups do not rely on these laws?

- Mrs. Jennifer
- Mr.    Eduardo

I would like to thank the guests for their opinions, and the public for their assistance and attention, I hope you liked the track and we look forward to an upcoming debate with another interesting topic, so long. 

(Gabriel Ochoa Agudelo)

Arguments against animal exploitation

  Animal exploitation is one of the major problems facing us today about 3000 animals die every second because of very cruel practices, to reduce this amount is in the hands of all but especially governments unfortunately few measures carried out so that animals do not suffer as they are doing in the XXI century.

2)    All  living beins must live to free because they feel pain just like humans, the cages and prisons  eliminate life.

3)    The specism , beleave in the believe in the superiority of one species over another is other form the discrimination as the racism, sexism or homophobia. The human can´t  remain in the same as said Peter Singer.

4)    Before    being sold   the animals live in very bad conditions,  cages are always  dirty They are also malnourished. The sad can be observe in their faces as we can see in the next video.

5)    In paragraph B of Article 14 of the international declaration of animal rights until today said” The animal rights must be defended by  the law As human rights.

All non-human animals or humans should live free

remember you are not free until you free your slaves
                                                                                                               (Jennifer Suárez)

Arguments for animal exploitation

1. These people makes money honestly marketing with animals, this sale obviously must be controlled for an organization of control that ensure all the rules of hygiene and security for that these animals can live worthily in this sites where remain in captivity.

2. These experiments have allowed the development scientific throughout history, also I don´t have information that actually the animals suffer in these experiments. The animal’s defense organization should evaluate who experiments actually it cause suffering and take the steps necessary.

3. The human´s progress always has depended of treatment with animals, because these it have generated different benefits throughout history. The treatment with animals is beneficial to the human provided to ensure that the animals don´t suffer and it be treated in the most dignified.

4. This organization is illegal, therefore must be arrested and carried to jail. In my opinion this is not the right way to defend the rights of animals, for that exist the agencies of control as the “Sociedad Protectora De Animales”, in the case of Colombia, who look after the animal rights.

(Mr. Eduardo)

 

Video -English project

Some Pictures

amas a unos y comes a otros

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVxRPfT39nk

Animal Liberation at 30 -Peter Singer

The phrase “Animal Liberation” appeared in the press for the first time on the April 5, 1973, cover of The New York Review of Books. Under that heading, I discussed Animals, Men and Morals, a collection of essays on our treatment of animals, which was edited by Stanley and Roslind Godlovitch and John Harris.¹ The article began with these words:

We are familiar with Black Liberation, Gay Liberation, and a variety of other movements. With Women’s Liberation some thought we had come to the end of the road. Discrimination on the basis of sex, it has been said, is the last form of discrimination that is universally accepted and practiced without pretense, even in those liberal circles which have long prided themselves on their freedom from racial discrimination. But one should always be wary of talking of “the last remaining form of discrimination.”

In the text that followed, I urged that despite obvious differences between humans and nonhuman animals, we share with them a capacity to suffer, and this means that they, like us, have interests. If we ignore or discount their interests, simply on the grounds that they are not members of our species, the logic of our position is similar to that of the most blatant racists or sexists who think that those who belong to their race or sex have superior moral status, simply in virtue of their race or sex, and irrespective of other characteristics or qualities. Although most humans may be superior in reasoning or in other intellectual capacities to nonhuman animals, that is not enough to justify the line we draw between humans and animals. Some humans—infants and those with severe intellectual disabilities—have intellectual capacities inferior to some animals, but we would, rightly, be shocked by anyone who proposed that we inflict slow, painful deaths on these intellectually inferior humans in order to test the safety of household products. Nor, of course, would we tolerate confining them in small cages and then slaughtering them in order to eat them. The fact that we are prepared to do these things to nonhuman animals is therefore a sign of “speciesism”—a prejudice that survives because it is convenient for the dominant group—in this case not whites or males, but all humans.